{"id":7479,"date":"2022-10-23T05:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/revealed-how-coyotes-and-scammers-use-tiktok-to-sell-migrants-the-american-dream\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T05:39:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T03:39:24","slug":"revealed-how-coyotes-and-scammers-use-tiktok-to-sell-migrants-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/revealed-how-coyotes-and-scammers-use-tiktok-to-sell-migrants-the-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: how coyotes and scammers use TikTok to sell migrants the American dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video platform has become a place for migrants to seek and share information, but experts fear exploitation is on the rise<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/series\/the-tiktok-takeover\">Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The TikTok video starts like most other travel snaps on the platform do, with selfie shots showing the user* and his companions sitting on a plane and walking through the airport.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike the highly curated images of hotels and tourist attractions typical of this genre on TikTok, the video quickly takes an uncharacteristic turn, showing the user sleeping in camps, at one point traveling by horseback and ultimately scaling what he calls \u201cla famosa frontera de la muerte\u201d or \u201cthe famous border of death\u201d between the US and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/22\/tiktok-coyotes-scammers-migrants-american-dream-revealed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ae548b9b8383c3630648fb3e7e299da056a26abd\/0_0_2992_1790\/master\/2992.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4ec1894c625b08e8567301ad42f64a4c\" title=\"Revealed: how coyotes and scammers use TikTok to sell migrants the American dream\" \/>The video platform has become a place for migrants to seek and share information, but experts fear exploitation is on the rise<br \/>\nRead the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok<br \/>\nThe TikTok video starts like most other travel snaps on the platform do, with selfie shots showing the user* and his companions sitting on a plane and walking through the airport.<br \/>\nBut unlike the highly curated images of hotels and tourist attractions typical of this genre on TikTok, the video quickly takes an uncharacteristic turn, showing the user sleeping in camps, at one point traveling by horseback and ultimately scaling what he calls \u201cla famosa frontera de la muerte\u201d or \u201cthe famous border of death\u201d between the US and Mexico. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video platform has become a place for migrants to seek and share information, but experts fear exploitation is on the rise Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok The TikTok video starts like most other travel snaps on the platform do, with selfie shots showing the user* and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/23\/revealed-how-coyotes-and-scammers-use-tiktok-to-sell-migrants-the-american-dream\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Revealed: how coyotes and scammers use TikTok to sell migrants the American dream<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}